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Incubating eggs
Above is one of my Christmas presents: an incubator. Yesterday, we headed over to Durham Hens to buy feed and a batch of fertilised cream leghorn eggs (see below).
The eggs are now in the incubator. I have to turn them three times a day (there are bigger, automatic incubators that do that but we just need a small one). It takes 21 days to hatch hen eggs and these eggs were laid in the past week so sometime 15th-20th March should see some chicks hatching though I ain’t going to count my chickens yet!
Until 2009 I was working in London, UK, but I gave it up to pursue a life of self-sufficiency. My aim is to grow or forage for all my food, produce my own power and live a healthier and greener lifestyle. I left London to return to my home village of Sunniside, near Newcastle, in the North East of England. I have a couple of plots of land there as well as the garden of my house. Our village is a commuter area for Newcastle but we are surrounded by countryside which we use for picking wild foods. My mission in life is to show that it is possible to live well without destroying the planet in the process. I am also keen to ensure knowledge of historic recipes and cooking is kept alive. I regularly try out recipes from old cookbooks using the food we have grown. I make videos about our progress and about how to cook home-grown foods. These can be viewed on www.youtube.com/jonathanwallace.
www.self-sufficientinsuburbia.blogspot.com
2013-03-04 13:20:06
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